An edition of Livro do desassossego (1900)

The book of disquietude

by Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon

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An edition of Livro do desassossego (1900)

The book of disquietude

by Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon

by

  • ★★★★ 4.0 (5 ratings) ·
  • 201 Want to read
  • 14 Currently reading
  • 12 Have read

The Book of Disquietude is the "factless autobiography" of "Bernardo Soares," one of the 72 literary personae with which Portugal's greatest poet Fernando Pessoa created the theater of himself. Conceived in 1916, "Soares" is, Pessoa declares, "a mutilation" of his own personality. This is the first, and only complete, English edition.

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Sheep Meadow Press
Language
English
Pages
323

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Subjects

Portuguese Poets, Poetas portugueses, Fiction, Biografía, Biography, Modern fiction, General, Poetry, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Poetry (poetic works by one author), Pessoa, fernando, 1888-1935, Poets, biography, Portugal, biography, Notebooks, sketchbooks, Authors, portuguese, Biographie, Poètes portugais, Biographies, Poets, Portuguese

People

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

Places

Lisbon (Portugal)

Times

20th century, Siglo XX, 20e siècle

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Livro do desassossego
Livro do desassossego
2014, Tinta-da-China
in Portuguese - 1.a edição.
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Cover of: The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet
2003, Penguin Books
in English
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Cover of: Libro del desasosiego
Libro del desasosiego: compuesto por Bernardo Soares, auxiliar de tenedor de libros en la ciudad de Lisboa
2000, Emecé, c2000
in Spanish - [3a ed.].
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Cover of: The book of disquietude
The book of disquietude: by Bernardo Soares, assistant bookkeeper in the city of Lisbon
1996, Sheep Meadow Press
in English
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [1]).
Translation of: Livro do desassossego por Bernardo Soares.

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Riversdale-on-Hudson, N.Y
Series
Aspects of Portugal

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
869.1/41, B
Library of Congress
PQ9261.P417 L5813 1996, PQ9261.P417.L5813

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 323 p. ;
Number of pages
323

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL777857M
Internet Archive
bookofdisquietud0000soar
ISBN 10
1878818651
LCCN
97179124
OCLC/WorldCat
36408087
Library Thing
67935
Goodreads
855304

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Work Description

The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa's death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa's entire writing life. --

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